Receives Quotes
274 quotes by 233 authors
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Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth…
— Bayard Rustin
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If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
— John Stuart Mill
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Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the…
— H E Bates
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A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.
— Gautama Buddha
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And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on…
— Luke the Evangelist
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Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person…
— Dawna Markova
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In like manner, everyone who has received from God the power of distinguishing and yet follows an unskillful pastor and receives a false opinion for…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others.
— Timothy Keller
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If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound…
— Paulo Coelho
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long…
— Gabriela Mistral
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Jesus receives us with all of our limitations, He bring us the mercy of the Father who forgives us, and transforms our heart, rendering it…
— Pope Francis
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Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God.…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can…
— Pope Pius XII
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O Virgin most holy, none abounds in the knowledge of God except through thee; none, O Mother of God, obtains salvation except through thee, none…
— Pope Leo XIII
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To receive the gospel is to receive an entirely different view of reality where Christ is the epicenter of all things. He becomes the center…
— Paul Washer
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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
— John Philip Sousa
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